| HAGIOGRAPHY | Writing of the lives of saints, or a volume thus produced (11) |
| HAGIOGRAPHIST | One who writes about lives of saints |
| RECEIPT | What is the acknowledgement in writing of the payment of a bill (7) |
| ENGELS | Marx's collaborator in the writing of The Communist Manifesto (6) |
| CANON | Rule in ecclesiastical matters; a principle applied in a branch of learning such as philosophy or art; a list of saints; or, the works of any author accepted as genuine (5) |
| FATES | In Greek mythology, the three goddesses who control the destinies of the lives of man (5) |
| TENNANT | Kylie, novelist famed for her depictions of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia (7) |
| AMADEUS | Peter Shaffer play, a fictionalised account of the lives of Mozart and Salieri |
| THECRUELSEA | 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat following the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II |
| HALO | Word for a circle of light round the Sun or the Moon originally, later the nimbus of a saint; or, the figurative aura of glory of a venerated person (4) |
| FORSYTESAGA | The --- ---, series of novels by John Galsworthy chronicling the lives of a British family (7,4) |
| SPACEWRITER | Journalist paid for volume, one describing the lives of the stars? |
| OCHRE | A clay and one of a family of earthy pigments with sienna and umber; or, the brownish-yellow or ruddle-red colour thus produced (5) |
| AUREOLA | In art, a golden or luminous cloud represented encircling the body or head of a saint or other sacred personage; or, a halo around the sun or moon (7) |
| GREYGARDENS | 1975 documentary film about the lives of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale (4,7) |
| BEAST | Be a little saint, or a monster (5) |
| CURE | Blaspheme in the absence of saint or priest |
| HOLYTERROR | Awe inspired by a saint - or a little devil (4,6) |
| ZOROASTER | Persian prophet, the founder of a dualistic religion set forth in the sacred writings of the Zend-Avesta (9) |
| CAESAR | One of the lives in Plutarch's "Lives" |
